Aside: I’m a Seattle person. Ari Hoffman, the host of the radio show, is a local Trump-y conservative who ran for city council and lost. He is very invested in the “Seattle is dying” from crime and homelessness narrative and only leaked this stuff to support his position, not to expose Schultz. One of the Seattle Starb…

I worked in a Starbucks briefly during college. There was a guy there who had some kind of a learning disability but he was an honest, loyal guy and a really hard worker - honestly a MUCH better worker than a minimum wage coffee shop deserved. He worked there for years, slaving away for minimum wage + free bag of…

Im in the SF area: A shitty studio in a building build in 1912 will be going for $2,000, and activists will block a new housing project because it isn’t “affordable.” Nothing is affordable, and if they are selling a condo for less than $600 or $700K it is likely at a loss. Not to mention affordability means that it…

I think what’s happening in San Francisco demonstrates that supervised injection sites aren’t enough. Harm reduction efforts like that have to include an effort to drive, maybe even force people using things like a safe injection site into treatment.  Letting people be fentanyl addicts until they kill themselves is an…

Shoplifting has been made legal in several major cities just recently with similar rhetoric swirling in others hence increasingly.

Third, Starbucks made $6.2 billion in profit in the first quarter of this year.

Cities need to just pay for ample public restrooms and the necessary cleaning and security for them, especially in high foot traffic areas. 

Best thing the Starbucks Union can do is keep on winning elections and get big enough so they can finally threaten a serious strike to get Starbucks to the bargaining table. Schultz probably won’t stop being an obstacle to that unless the cost to the company gets high enough that they force him out as CEO.

Here’s a radical idea from years ago:

Considering shoplifting is increasingly made legal for all intents and purposes (look at the current state of affairs in San Francisco) and if an employee defends themselves from assault they face being fired (admittedly on the company) and/or sued for doing so those ‘laws’ don’t amount to a hill of beans.

Okay, but when I worked at a Starbucks in Santa Cruz like 20 years ago there were homeless people shitting on the floor of the bathroom and washing their clothes in the toilet. Guess who had to clean that up? The employees. Guess who successfully lobbied to close the bathroom to the public? The employees. Does that…

I think Jonathan Banks is the one who consistently looks older than he should be compared to BB, but yeah, Bob looked pretty odd in that wake/funeral scene.

(The theories people have that “Gene” relocated to Omaha because it’s Kim’s hometown make more and more sense to me.)

He wanted Walt to believe he had kids, so he staged his house to look like small children lived there, and he mentioned “I never cook this... kids won’t eat it.” It was a ruse to convince Walt that everything they do is for purposes of providing for their families. The irony being, Gus did not have a family, all he…

I think she’s pretty clearly punishing herself for what happened. Unlike Jimmy, I don’t think she’s going to be able to push this all down and just ‘forget what happened’ as Jimmy talks about in the bedroom scene. She’s got way too much empathy, which has been well established in the show.

I think the point is just that he has a whole bowl of breakfast bars set out for all the special ladies who inevitably find themselves popping into his dining room to get paid early in the morning.

Yeah, I don’t get why she’s giving up her law licence.

I’d say it’s both - the latter making the former possible, and that blurring between the lines is what makes it all the more convincing why she decides, then and there, to leave. She KNOWS she could become a full-blown sociopath if she allowed herself to be - that she wanted to stay with Jimmy and enact the plan…

I think there was one single scene that perfectly sums up the essence of Saul Goodman.

*opens mouth